This Dark Web Market is Planning to Add Support for Ethereum

One of the most well-known dark markets is looking to add support for ethereum in the coming weeks. A moderator for AlphaBay – one of the world's most popular dark markets, according to data from DeepDotWeb – took to Reddit over the weekend to announce that it would integrate ether payments beginning on 1st May. According to a PGP-signed moderator post on the AlphaBayMarket subreddit, recent price increases drove the integration decision. The moderator wrote: "We are currently laying out the framework to make ETH acceptance possible, and we will enable ethereum deposits and....

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Many people believe that search engines, especially Google, can index most of the pages available on the web for a given search query. Nonetheless, the truth is that there is a massive part of the internet that cannot be accessed by Google's crawling spiders. This part of the web is known as the "Dark Web" and it is a place where cryptocurrency, namely bitcoin, is the official currency. What is The Dark Web? The dark web, or deep web (false name as the deep web is a part of the dark web), represents the parts of the world wide web that are hosted on overlay networks, darknets, TOR....

Bitcoin has been the de facto currency of the Dark Web - the 'hidden' Internet accessible only by Tor - since the pioneering marketplace Silk Road, the 'eBay of drugs', arrived in 2011. But just how much do we know about these new underground economies? Who is buying and selling - and what? Here's what available data can tell us about bitcoin on the Dark Web. Bitcoin on the Dark Web: the Facts

Kraken has become the first digital currency platform in the history to introduce Ether Dark Pool.
Kraken yesterday announced that it is introducing Ether Dark Pool on its platform, thereby becoming the first digital currency exchange to have introduced such a trading feature.
The core motto behind the launch of Ether Dark Pool is to provide traders with an abstract layer of privacy, while executing larger orders. Especially in an over-volatile market such as cryptocurrency, the need to shield big trading orders is must for every professional trader – to....

BTCC, a major Chinese Bitcoin exchange, recently launched a new USD-to-Bitcoin exchange. Upon its successful US debut, the company announced its support for Ethereum Classic over ETH.
On July 26, the Ethereum development team completed its hard fork to protect investors against the DAO attack. Almost immediately after the hard fork execution, Ethereum Classic emerged, to maintain the original governance model of Ethereum.
Leading Bitcoin exchanges, including Kraken and Bitfinex, have supported both Ethereum Classic and Ethereum since, considering large market caps of both ETC and ETH.....

The global Bitcoin and digital asset exchange Kraken has announced it will be the first and only exchange enabling clients to use the (ETH) Dark Pool Trading. The Dark Pool allows users to “discreetly” place large trading orders without exposing the order book to the public.
Kraken Adds More Ethereum Support to it’s Exchange.
Kraken has noticed that Ethereum has been on the rise lately both in value and trading volume. The exchange has offered dark pool trading before but CEO Jesse Powell said now was the perfect time to add an Ether Dark Pool to Kraken’s....

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Just tried to buy breakfast w bitcoins. Refused. #whenwilltheworld catchuptomyhipness? (taken from his official twitter page)